ochBlog - 12 months

ochBlog - The Easy Way to Convert Your Joomla! Site into a Fully Fledged Blog Platform

ochBlog is a Joomla! extension that gives you and your bloggers all the features you need to create a successful blog.

Joomla! used to fall short when it came to blogging, but not anymore. Say farewell to complex extensions (Like K2 and EasyBlog) with their compatibility and vendor-lockin issues. We've seamlessly integrated powerful blogging features into Joomla! itself.

We've built upon Joomla's strong CMS foundation, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of extensions, both now and in the future. No more getting locked into third-party solutions!

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Benefits of ochBlog:

Seamlessly convert Articles into Blogs: ochBlog allows you to easily convert your existing Joomla! articles into blog posts. This means that you don't have to start from scratch, and you can keep all of your existing content.
Full Front-end Blog Management: ochBlog provides your bloggers with a full-featured front-end interface for managing their blog posts. This means that they can create, edit, and publish posts without having to access the Joomla! backend.
Differentiate between regular bloggers and pro-bloggers: ochBlog allows you to differentiate between regular bloggers and pro-bloggers. Pro-bloggers can have their own author profile pages, which can showcase their expertise and build their personal brand.
Integrated Avatar and About Text support: ochBlog supports avatars and about text from a variety of sources, including ochBlog, Kunena, Community Builder, and Gravatar. This means that your bloggers can use their existing avatars and about text, without having to duplicate their efforts.
Integrated Authorprofile page: ochBlog provides a built-in author profile page for each blogger. This page can be customized to showcase the blogger's biography, social media links, and other relevant information.
Dynamic Article Info: ochBlog allows you to add dynamic information to your blog posts, such as the blogger's avatar, social sharing buttons, article info, and badges. This information can be fully customized to meet your needs.
Dynamic Featured Article view: ochBlog allows you to create dynamic featured article views, which can include the blogger's avatar, social sharing buttons, article info, and badges.
Dynamic Category Blog view: ochBlog allows you to create dynamic category blog views, which can include the blogger's avatar, social sharing buttons, article info, and badges.
Credits Information: ochBlog allows you to give credits to coauthors, photographers, and other contributors. This information can be displayed above or below the article text, and it can be customized using Joomla! Custom Article Fields.
Dynamic Article Author Info: ochBlog allows you to add dynamic author information to your blog posts, such as the blogger's avatar, bio, author badges, and about text.
Dynamic Author Badges: ochBlog allows you to automatically add author badges to your blog posts, based on the number of blogs written or the influence score.
Content Construction: ochBlog allows you to use values from Kunena user profiles, Joomla! user profiles, Easy-Profile, and Joomla! 3.7.x custom user fields to dynamically replace variables with their values.
Built-in Authors Overview Page: ochBlog provides a built-in authors overview page, which gives you an overview of all of your bloggers. This page can be sorted by name, ID, number of blogs, or random.
Built-in Authorprofile Page: ochBlog provides a built-in author profile page for each blogger. This page can be customized to showcase the blogger's biography, social media links, and other relevant information.
RSS Feed on Authorprofile Page: ochBlog allows you to generate an RSS feed of all of a blogger's articles. This feed can be used to integrate the blogger's articles into other platforms or to allow visitors to subscribe to the blogger's content.
Increase Blogger Commitment with Notification System: ochBlog allows you to automatically notify bloggers when their blog posts reach a certain number of hits. This can help to increase blogger engagement and motivation.
Article List Module: ochBlog provides an article list module that adds avatar, author, and author profile page functionality to the Joomla! articles category module.
Canonical URL: ochBlog allows you to set a canonical URL for each blog post using a Joomla! Custom Article (URL) field. This can help to prevent duplicate content penalties from search engines.

Guarantee

We are so confident that you will love ochBlog that we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are not happy with the extension for any reason, simply contact us and we will refund your purchase price.

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Testimonials

"LerendeLeiders.nl is the leading leadership community and blogging site in the Netherlands. To stay top of mind with our customers we know that content is king and your on-line reputation is as good as your last blog. ochBlog enables our Bloggers to professionally show case their knowledge and, equally important, position themselves as though-leaders! The functionality added by ochBlog to Joomla is build upon years of experience in running multiple blog websites. Because it builds upon what Joomla! already has to offer it is highly extensible."